Looks like IMAP is making it’s way into Gmail, which is exciting and long overdue. Great news for those who use desktop apps to manage their Gmail. Now changes you make in your desktop app are reflected in your Gmail account.
Although, still no love for it’s Google Apps for Your Domain (GAFYD) accounts. Which, actually, is not surprising. Google Calendar and Gmail have great mobile interfaces, but the business app users, who arguably need it more (and pay for it), get nothing beyond the standard Gmail BlackBerry app. Google seems to have it’s priorities backwards. They update their free consumer accounts before their paid business accounts.
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October 23rd, 2007
Well, I won’t be having spam for Thanksgiving because I am currently a Vegan (don’t ask). Not that I would be having spam for Thanksgiving anyway. But, what this post is referring to is not the delicious “meat” in a can, but the incredible amount of junk mail that I and our business have been receiving lately. I am literally getting a junk message every 2-5 minutes (Apple’s built-in Mail.app Junk Filter is getting completely worked).
In addition, our email messages have not been sending properly. So, I called up our hosting provider, Media Temple and tried to figure out the problem. They informed me that junk mail is up 80% this month alone and this is causing their servers to be overwhelmed. I am not sure if the 80% increase stat is correct, but I would not be surprised. CNET reports that mass-emailers typically bump up their production of spam mail during the holiday season. This year is slated to be worse than ever before.
In October, 63 billion junk messages were sent daily, on average, compared with 31 billion a year ago, according to data from IronPort Systems. IronPort predicts that the number of spam messages will average 78 billion a day in December, up from 38 billion last year.
CNET ” ‘Tis the season to send spam” 11/20/06
It seems that you either have to have an industrial strength spam filter and have false positives or deal with all of the junk. There does not seem to be a good solution, at this time. If you know of a great spam filter for Mac OS X, please let me know!
Hey Google, if you can hear me, please put a free version of your GMail spam filter, that we can use with Mail.app, under my Christmas tree this year.
Update (12/6/06): The New York Times reports on this same issue today. The situation does not look like it is getting much better anytime soon. I wonder if any of these spammers are supported by the anti-spam companies that now have an even “better” climate to hawk their filtration systems? Another conspiracy theory for another time.
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November 22nd, 2006
A lot of GMail talk here lately, but it is currently the best web-based mail application. But, from the day it was launched GMail was missing a very small feature that would make a world of difference. And now Google finally implemented it. The quick reply/forward button on the top right of the mail window. That means no more scrolling through the lengthy emails just to find the reply box. Wonderful.
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November 10th, 2006